Sean Combs onstage in Brooklyn, as seen in the documentary Can’t Stop Don’t Stop: A Bad Boy Story. (Photo courtesy Live Nation)

A pair of hip hop docs, a diva duo and one making-of compete for honors in the MTV Movie & TV Awards, which announced nominees today.

HBO’s riveting four part rags-to-riches tale, The Defiant Ones, examines the chain of events that led to the improbably pairing of a NY-born longshoreman’s son, Jimmy Iovine, with Compton, California-bred beatmaster Dr. Dre. The series charts their association at Interscope Records and partnership in Beats, which they sold to Apple, becoming billionaires.

It goes head-on with the behind-the-scenes saga of Bad Boy Records and the concert celebrating its anniversary,  Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A Bad Boy Story. Directed by Daniel Kaufman, Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop takes place over two nights in May 2017 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and features performances by Notorious B.I.G., Sean Combs, Lil’ Kim, Mase and 112. The 80-minute show originally premiered on Apple Music.

Jay-Z craftily released a series of visuals, dubbed “Footnotes,” to expand upon the themes of his 4:44 album. Produced and initially released through his own Tidal music service, the Footnotes for 4:44 plumb the depths of everything from the OJ murders to the state of his marriage.

Two women crack the hip-hop boys club: Lady Gaga and Demi Lovato. Produced for Netflix, Gaga: Five Foot Two rewinds the singer’s life as she releases a new album and prepsfor 2017’s Super Bowl LI performance. It is directed by Chris Moukarbel.

Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated captures the singer as she records her sixth studio album Tell Me You Love Me . The in-studio stuff digresses to deal with the singer’s struggles with addiction and the intense bullying the Albuquerque-born former Disney Channel star endured in high school.

Two other music-driven shows among the nominees — which are voted on by MTV viewers, the same way the winners are picked — are the Sony Pictures theatrical release Baby Driver, whose star Ansel Elgort is in the running for best performance in a movie for his portrayal of the afflicted title getaway wheeler who deals with his tinnitus by living his life to a non-stop headphones mix.

VH-1’s top-rated original series, Love & Hip Hop, also scored a nom in the reality category. The show explores the personal and professional lives of a cadre of hip hop and R&B musicians, performers, managers and producers operating in territories throughout the United States.

For a complete list of nominees, click here.